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NEW! 5/14/2008 4:33:50 PM EST Was it a good day for the polar bears, or just a symbolic gesture?
The Interior Department today declared the poor creatures a “threatened species” under the Endangered Species Act because of global warming, but said that’s no reason to regulate greenhouse gases or address climate change.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that although the bears’ feeding and denning grounds are threatened by the loss of Arctic sea ice from global warming, the Enda Comments (0)
5/13/2008 3:03:25 PM EST Our Web Interface Team will be in Center City, Philadelphia, in the first week of June to test the legal Web centers. We are looking for your feedback on the current centers and interested in learning how we can make improve your experience moving forward.
If you would like to share your views and participate in this discussion, please contact Tom Hagy at tom.hagy@lexisnexis.com. LexisNexis will pay you a modest honorarium for y Comments (0)
5/6/2008 11:09:14 AM EST A “Green Portfolio” partnership between the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Kohl Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR) was announced on May 1st that will measure and improve the environmental performance of companies within KKR’s U.S. portfolio. EDF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting environmental rights that works to identify environment Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
4/11/2008 5:25:58 PM EST Joe (and Jane) Sixpacks of the world beware: Climate change may be hazardous to your hunting, your fishing and your beer drinking.
The news this week was full of predictions of widespread flooding, droughts, malaria outbreaks and malnutrition related to global warming, dire scenarios the average citizen might have trouble imagining. But two reports surfaced to strike fear in the hearts of sporting folk.
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4/8/2008 6:21:36 PM EST Posted by Morgan WadeLegal Project Editor/LexisNexis Law Center Staff A new report by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), entitled “Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2008,” details many issues affecting the economic status of that region. One of the points that stands out is the effect of deforestation on the global climate. Deforestation, which occurs when trees are removed, Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
3/28/2008 12:11:26 PM EST Don’t expect action from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the Bush administration on greenhouse gas emissions before this president’s term is up.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson told Congress yesterday that he wants a long public comment period about potential risks before responding to a U.S. Supreme Court order.
As reported in Mealey’s Litigation Report: Pollution Liability, the high court last Comments (0)
3/26/2008 2:19:04 PM EST Posted by Morgan WadeLegal Project Editor/LexisNexis Law Center Staff On Thursday, February 21, National Public Radio's Morning Edition ran a story tracing the growing trend of corporate and governmental investors to look more closely at the "carbon risk" of potential investments [available at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19226037]. The carbon risk factor is the liability a company faces if caps or penalties are imposed on Comments (0)
3/18/2008 11:05:56 AM EST Although the foundation of today’s Internet was built as a government project more than 40 years ago, relatively few people were using it at the beginning of the 1990s. Then Vice President Al Gore spoke glowingly of the promise of the “information superhighway,” which would improve the conduct of science and scholarship, provide an engine for economic growth, and most importantly, give people access to mountains of Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
3/10/2008 1:26:55 PM EST As someone who has built a successful law blog and who has been blogging daily for more than two years, I’ve been asked to write a series of posts talking about how to blog, what to do and what not to do. “How to” blog is always a tricky, touchy subject, one that sounds dangerously close to impinging on the thing that is most beloved among bloggers, their autonomy and sense of freedom. The internet is the new Final F Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
2/25/2008 5:59:53 PM EST The Green Building Finance and Investment Forum held on February 20-22 in San Francisco reinforced market trends which I have recently seen accelerating relative to the institutionalization of green building requirements. This was emphasized by several major entities represented at the program including the State of California, AIG, JP Morgan Chase and RREEF, among other such institutions, which indicated that not incorporating sustainability requirements Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
2/14/2008 7:17:33 AM EST Posted by Morgan WadeLegal Project Editor/LexisNexis Law Center Staff Two reports in the journal Science find biofuels cause more greenhouse gas emissions than traditional fuels when the effect of land changes are considered, as reported Friday, February 8, 2008, in the New York Times. No one expected biofuels to be a panacea that would ease all fear of global warming, but could they actually make it worse?
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2/12/2008 3:08:50 PM EST According to a recent news release from NASA’s Earth Observatory site (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/), a link between changes in the temperature of the surface of the sea and increases in hurricane activity in the North Atlantic has been quantified for the first time.
The release cites research by scientists at University College London (UCL) that shows that a 0.5 degree Celsius increase in sea surface temperature can be as Comments (0)
2/7/2008 2:49:55 PM EST On February 7, 2008, EPA announced the launch of a new Greenhouse Gas Calculator that can estimate greenhouse gas emission reductions. The calculator converts greenhouse gas-related savings estimates, typically presented in "million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents," into familiar terms such as the greenhouse gas emissions that would result from, among other activities, driving a particular number of cars for a year, using a particular amount of gasoline or barrels of Comments (0)
1/31/2008 12:43:59 PM EST Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr., for the Eastern District of Louisiana, dismissed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from a class action lawsuit alleging that the Corps' negligent design, construction, maintenance and operation of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) contributed to levee breaches and subsequent flooding during Hurricane Katrina (In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation, No. 05-4182, E.D. La.).
In his 48-page orde Comments (0)
1/29/2008 9:42:09 PM EST The EPA and the Energy Information Administration published analyses of Senators Specter (R-PA) and Bingaman's (D-NM) proposed Low Carbon Economy Act of 2007, saying any impact on economic growth and prices would be modest.
But, according to attorney and blogger Shari Shapiro, "What the bill and the analysis by the EPA and EIA fail to take into consideration is that the reliance of the Low Carbon Economy Act on carbon recapture and nuclear power has the potential Comments (0)
1/29/2008 3:30:33 PM EST Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter; a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick.
On January 28, 2008, EPA issued a press release announcing the award of 21 grants totaling $7.34 million to universities to investigate potential adverse health and environmental effects of manufactured nanomaterials. As stated in th Comments (0)
12/8/2007 7:33:16 PM EST We have created a chart that displays all the climate change litigation that has been brought in the U.S. courts, plus some of the administrative cases. The chart is organized by type of case. It contains hot links to most of the decisions and, where decisions have not been rendered, to certain pleadings. To access the chart, go to the lower right of the Environmental Law & Climate Change Center page, under "Other Links," and click on "Climate Change Litigation Chart." We Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
11/30/2007 12:40:51 PM EST SUMMARY COURTESY OF MARTEN LAW GROUP: In a landmark decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that federal agencies must assess the climate change impacts in environmental documents prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The issue arose in the Court’s review of new fuel economy standards for light trucks and SUVs issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In its decision in Continue reading >>Comments (0)
11/2/2007 11:12:21 AM EST The message at the climate change conference sponsored this morning by the Washington, D.C. law firm Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP was very clear--a progressive movement is afoot to effect monumental change in the way Americans think and in the way America runs its economy, and the proponents of individual rights and a free-market system had better get to the table and make their positions known before they become the main course on the menu.
Panel participants Jason Johnston (Director Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
9/27/2007 4:31:25 PM EST Posted by David OstroveLexisNexis Environmental Law & Climate Change Center Staff
In 2007, California ’s Legislature passed two new laws on climate change. These bills, signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, are in addition to the landmark legislation signed into law last year—the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.
Chaptered Bill 185 (Senate Bill 97) of the 2007-2008 California legislative session addresses greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the state’s environmental review statute, the California Enviro Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
9/27/2007 4:31:23 PM EST KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. — There is an apparent conflict over whether the states can impose automobile tailpipe emission standards different from the federal government but the conflict is more over the theory of litigation than the substance of states rights.
Federal court decisions out of California and Vermo Comments (0)
9/27/2007 4:26:04 PM EST WASHINGTON, D.C. — The governors of Maryland and Virginia testified Sept. 25 before a U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee meeting that higher ocean temperatures and rising water levels in Chesapeake Bay call for a federal response, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun.
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